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Editorial: Stories: Hurricanes

Anna Elliott, 9, anxiously awaits the arrival of Hurricane Frances on Saturday, September 4, 2004. Anna and her family evacuated the barrier island and stayed inland in Vero Beach.
   
Vero Beach police block the entry to the 17th St. bridge as the winds make it too dangerous to drive over the Inter-Coastal waterway in Vero Beach, Florida
   
Anne Lapardo of Barefoot Bay, Fl., knows she won't get very far with her dust pan but at age 90 she can't haul the big pieces of debris left after Hurricane Jeanne hit the Treasure Coast on Saturday, September 25, 2004. "Frances messed it up a little and now Jeanne made it worse," said Lapardo. Lapardo won't be able to stay in her home and will have to stay with relatives.
     
  
Angelo Floyd, left, shows housemate, Stephen Sites, the moldy celing outside his third floor room in Wabasso, Fl., on Wednesday, October 6, 2004. The rooming house, which hadn't been properly maintained, sustained damage during hurricanes Frances and Jeanne. While the home is still livable, residents believe that the owner of the rooming house is trying to evict them in order to usher in more tenants at a higher price.
   
"We just rolled out. All we have is what these nice folks have given us," said Arion Jones, left, who looks over donated clothes with her daughter, Danelle, 8, center and her son, Jerome, 15, back right, in the parking lot of a Red Cross shelter at the Central Baptist Church in Crestview, Florida.
   
Barbara Woodward, front, Annamelia Smith, center, and Caroline Fitzgerald, back, haul a heavy tree branch out of B.J.'s Rainbow Garden in Vero Beach, Fl., on Friday, October 8, 2004. The women are members of the Indian River Garden Club (Jasmine Circle) and volunteered their time to help owner, B.J. Vaughn, clean up the devastation in her garden caused by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.
     
  
Thomas Hamm, a member of the New Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Gifford, Fl., clears debris from the steeple of the church on Monday, September 27, 2004. Hurricane Jeanne caused only minor damage to the church.
  
Lauren Breinlinger, 12, takes a rest from helping her 90 year old great-grandmother, Anne Lapardo, move out of her condemned manufactured home in Barefoot Bay on Tuesday, September 28, 2004. Breinlinger and many of her family members had been working all day removing furniture and family heirlooms.
   
Sergeant Terry Tims of the 1st 265th ADA National Guard Unit from Palatka, Fl., tosses a bag of ice to PFC Tracy Davis to load into a waiting car in the parking lot of Concordia Lutheran Church in Barefoot Bay on Thursday, September 30, 2004. Members of the National Guard were assisting the Brevard County Fire Rescue Department in passing out ice and water, which was available to anyone, not just residents of Barefoot Bay.
     
  
Andy Blossom, 18, of Sebastianm Fla, naps on his car while waiting for the power to be turned on at the Chevron gas station at 2602 U.S. 1 in Vero Beach on Monday, September 27, 2004. Customers waited several hours, hoping that the power would be turned on. The station's manager, George Deep, said they had gas for 600-700 cars but had no way to pump it. Blossom was one of the first ones it line and didn't plan on leaving. "I'm runnin' on fumes so I can't go anywhere," said Blossom.
   
Dorene Pettus put her daughter, Natalie Strickland, 2, to sleep on patio furniture inside the one room that the family is still able to live in. Family friend, Josh Hampton, 3, back left has a harder time getting to sleep. Pettus and her boyfriend, Anthony Strickland, have to sleep on the floor beside the children. Eventually, they will have to find a new place to live.
   
Manolo Naredo, 7, of Metairie, Louisiana, passes his time at a Red Cross shelter at the Central Baptist Church in Crestview, Florida, by riding a donated scooter past stacks of donated water. Naredo and fifteen of his relatives fled Hurricane Katrina and stayed in hotels until they started to run out of money. The police then referred them to this Red Cross shelter.
     
  
Margaret Wynn, tired and hungry, waits in line at a mobile Red Cross Disaster Relief van in Vero Beach. The van was giving out water and non-perishable food items.
   
Richard Sparling smokes the last of his cigarette before going to sleep in a tent outside his condemned manufactured home in Micco, just outside Barefoot Bay, on Tuesday, October 12, 2004. Sparling and his girlfriend, Dawn Carroll, not pictured, sleep in the tent on their rented property because they fear that their landlord will consider the lot abandoned and seize the manufactured home, which Sparling and Carroll own. The couple's children are staying with family.
   
The calm after the storm.